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Teacher tells students Linux is “illegal” and confiscates their copies
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danramos
2010-05-06 , 10:27
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That's nothing... get a load of this one:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...icle733264.ece
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"The idea that Free Software can be sold has some government officials perplexed. Times Online has the story. A UK Trading Standards officer contacted the Mozilla Foundation to report catching a business selling copies of Firefox. The organization confiscated the CDs with the intent to prosecute said business. When informed that such distribution was authorized, the officer first expressed disbelief that Free Software could be sold then said 'If Mozilla permit the sale of copied versions of its software, it makes it virtually impossible for us, from a practical point of view, to enforce UK anti-piracy legislation'."
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